Delete Task Properties Dialog Box

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Use the Delete Task dialog box to specify the data that you want to delete from the Data Warehouse by using the Data Deletion DTS task. You can select to delete detailed log file data for a specified site, or for all the sites associated with the Data Warehouse. In addition, you can delete log file data to reduce the size of the Data Warehouse. Alternatively, you can delete all data from the Data Warehouse, for example, if you have imported test data and want to empty the Data Warehouse before importing valid data.

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Description

Type a description for the deletion task. The maximum number of characters for the description is 255 characters.

Operation level

From the drop-down list, select one of these options:

  • Site level. Delete Web log files for the specified site only.

  • Data Warehouse level. Delete Web log files for all the sites associated with the Data Warehouse.

Site name

Select from the drop-down list the site that contains the data that you want to delete.

Data Warehouse name

Select from the drop-down list the Data Warehouse associated with the sites that contain the Web log files you want to delete.

Select delete type

From the drop-down list, select one of these options:

  • All Data in Data Warehouse. Deletes all data (detailed and summarized) from the Data Warehouse. Select this option when you have imported test data and want to empty the Data Warehouse before importing valid data.

  • Web Log Imports. Deletes data from selected Web log files. Select this option to reduce the size of the Data Warehouse.

All data

Select to delete both summary and detail data imported from the selected Web log files.

Detail data

Select to delete only detailed data imported from the selected Web log files.

Number of retries

Type the number of times you want the task to retry connection failures to the Data Warehouse. The default number is 10 times.

Seconds between retries

Type the number of seconds you want the task to wait between retry attempts. The default time interval is 30 seconds.

Logs to delete

From the drop-down list, select one of these options:

  • Select specific Web log imports to delete. After you select this option, select the Web log files that you want to delete from those listed. Click Task Id, Task description, Status, Start time, or Detail level to sort on the respective column.

  • Keep a number of current Web log imports. After you select this option, specify the number of current log files to keep.

  • Delete Web log imports by time. After you select this option, specify whether you want to delete log files older than a day, week, month, or year.

See Also

Other Resources

How to Run the Data Deletion DTS Task